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09-13-2021, 08:29 PM | #21 |
Iron Grenadier
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Seems like they used whatever recent molds they had left in their factories or inventories - as most of them come from the TRU 50th run and others taken SDCC Cobra Missile Command HQ Cobra Troopers/ Officers parts and a direct repaint of its Cobra Commander. Crank Case uses the legs from the Cobra Officer, the Hiss Driver gets new legs and a new head and chest armor while the rest of it is from the SDCC Cobra Officer.
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09-13-2021, 09:13 PM | #22 |
Bill Cosplay
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Does it seem like Hasbro has trouble with losing molds? I just think of the power of the force 2 star wars line. They released a lot of the original star wars molds repainted for the vehicles. X-wing, landspeeder, Falcon, they had all those molds. Contrast that with Gi joe. The stars and stripes debacle, the new Fang instead of the 25th, even the retro line being non oring. Did they just lose a lot of these molds? They seem pretty expensive to be careless with.
-molds become unusable over time due to wear and tear, corrosion, etc. -molds are huge and heavy, and it's not always feasible or viable to transport them from China to, say, Vietnam. Especially if they're older and don't have a lot of life left anyway. -molds are thousands of miles away from Hasbro's corporate offices in the country where the factories are based, and it's difficult to keep an eye on them and make sure they're being properly maintained. A lot of bootlegs from China actually come from someone over there using the original molds to create their own, or even using the original molds to pump the knock-offs out, and they're not likely to take the best care of the molds while they're going about it. -a lot of ARAH molds were actually lost when Hasbro licensed them to Funskool in India and Funskool didn't properly maintain them. In other words, there are a lot of reasons molds from 40 years ago, or even a decade ago, are no longer used.
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